Private Tech Companies
topic on 5 shows · 8 statements across 8 episodes
Innovators & Investors 
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8 statements about Private Tech Companies, every show
Tech companies claiming public-benefit missions should IPO earlier to share value
“I also have a, an observation that A bit of an objection to companies that wrap themselves up in public benefit language, and then keep the value creation to themselves and an elite group of investors through a big part of the curve, and then say, well, we're …”
Miller: Public venture funds will become a multi-hundred-billion-dollar asset class
“I think that it's about creating like a multi hundred billion dollar category where you get millions of people investing in private tech companies and build this bridge between the two sides of the market.”
Rajaram: High-valuation, low-growth startups will become zombies and sell to PE
“A bunch of them are going to become zombie companies, And they're going to try to add AI features as a last resort, not succeed and be sold to PE.”
Walker: Private tech industry employment likely peaked permanently in early 2022
“As of right now, my instinct is that this time actually is different and I would not expect, it's possible the highest number of employees to ever work at private tech companies as a total industry was in early twenty-twenty-two.”
Lemkin: Private secondary liquidity instantly vanishes when company growth slows
“I think if your growth struggles, it's, it instantly evaporates.”
Laffont: More tech companies are valued over $1B privately than publicly
“There's more private companies in tech That are worth more than a billion than public ones.”
De Rycker: Startups are avoiding priced rounds to prevent valuation down-marks
“And the challenge is that people are just not interested in going out and getting an outside mark right now. They much rather just put their head down and take the capital that they have and keep going.”
A Bloomberg Terminal for private tech shares is a massive market opportunity
“There's no dare I say, Bloomberg terminal private shares of later stage private tech companies. I'd love, I wish there was, that would certainly perhaps make my life a little bit easier. But having said that I think that would be a great opportunity.”